124 Viscount Walden on two new Species of Birch. 



fulvous, some with dark brown or black ; those of the chin 

 pale fulvous, nearly white ; over each eye a distinct broad 

 whitish band, formed by pure white feathers narrowly tipped 

 with yellowish brown, which again in most is narrowly fringed 

 with black, some nearest the eyes also edged throughout their 

 length with yellowish brown ; feathers of the head and nape 

 pale yellowish nisty, each traversed by three or four naiTOW 

 irregular light brown lines ; interscapulars and feathers of the 

 back and nimp coloured and marked like the plumage of the 

 head and nape, but the brown transverse bands are broader and 

 fewer ; scapulars tlie same, but a few more or less pure white, 

 mottled towards the tip with the prevailing tints ; ear-coverts 

 and cheeks principally white, with brown and ruddy fulvous 

 markings ; throat-feathers allsescent, with one or more narrow 

 brown cross bands ; a half-collar below the throat of feathers 

 marked and coloured like those of the nape ; breast-feathers 

 tipped with brown, a subterminal band of pale fulvous, then a 

 brown band followed by a mucli broader pure white band ; abdo- 

 minal feathers white, tipped with an irregular ocellated mark 

 centred with pale rasty fulvous and encircled with brown, then a 

 broad white band with a basal and narrower brown band ,• in 

 many of the abdominal feathers the ocellated markings are 

 replaced by an irregular cross band of mixed .fulvous and 

 brown; under tail-coverts white, with faint subterminal fulvous- 

 brown bands ; tarsus clothed with white feathers, faintly barred 

 with pale brown ; ground-colour of the primaries and secon- 

 daries brown, each quill traversed by three or more pale 

 rufo-fulvous narrow bands more or less complete, the brown 

 intervals towards the apices of the primaries and on their outer 

 webs much freckled with rufo-fulvous ; on the outer web of 

 the second, third, and fourth primaries the pale rufo-fulvous 

 bands change to fulvous white or pure white ; under wing- 

 coverts greyish white ; median rectrices marked and coloured 

 like the apices of the primaries, lateral with clear rufo-fulvous 

 bands running througli, all tipped, like the median shoulder- 

 edge, white. Tarsi feathered to within an eighth of an inch 

 of the base of the toes ; fourth and fifth quills equal, third 

 slightly longer than sixth. 



Wing 4*75 inches, tail 2*37, tarsus I'O, middle toe with 

 nail 1*12, bill from nostril (in a straiglit line) 0"65. 



Two examples of this small plain-coloured Sco])S Owl 

 were obtained near Port Blair, South Andaman, by Captain 

 R. Wimberley. 



